{"id":19807,"date":"2012-08-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/natso.com\/tolling-i-95-will-further-va-s-transportation-problems-not-solve-them\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T16:49:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T16:49:07","slug":"tolling-i-95-will-further-va-s-transportation-problems-not-solve-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/tolling-i-95-will-further-va-s-transportation-problems-not-solve-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Tolling I-95 Will Further Va.’s Transportation Problems, Not Solve Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

Responding to a recent commentary discussing the growing backlash against the Virginia Department of Transportation’s plans to toll Interstate 95, the Partnership to Save Highway Communities said that opposition<\/a> is growing for good reason. Tolling I-95 won’t just cost drivers more–it will have a ripple effect on residents, businesses and localities.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Va. Gov. Bob McDonnell recently suggested<\/a> that “if you don’t want to pay a toll, don’t use 95.”<\/p>\n

<\/span>Many drivers will likely take the governor’s advice, and the resulting traffic diversion away from I-95 will cause big problems. Residents who use area secondary roads or I-85, I-81 and 301 should expect greater road congestion and more accidents. Localities will spend millions of dollars more in road repair.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Travel plazas, truckstops, c-stores and restaurants near I-95 exits will see fewer interstate customers; all businesses who receive deliveries via I-95 will pay higher transportation costs.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Raising revenue for transportation is critical to the economic vitality of the Commonwealth, the Partnership said, but tolling I-95 will only serve to further Virginia’s transportation problems, not solve them.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Opposition to the I-95 tolling plan continues to mount, with the leaders of six Virginia counties and towns voicing their disagreement at a press conference<\/a> last week.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This article originally ran in 黑料社区News Weekly<\/a> <\/em>(NNW), NATSO’s member only<\/strong> weekly electronic newsletter. NNW is packed with the latest updates on government and business issues affecting the truckstop and travel plaza industry.<\/p>\n

If you aren’t reading NNW, you are missing out. Not a member<\/a>? Join today<\/a> or submit a request to receive additional information<\/a>. If you are a member and not receiving NNW, submit a request to be added to the email list<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolling I-95 won’t just cost drivers more–it will have a ripple effect on residents, businesses and localities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2323,2324],"tags":[2393,2348,2572],"post_subcategories":[2330],"post_types":[2331],"post_sections":[],"post_retailers":[],"post_sources":[2332],"post_suppliers":[],"class_list":["post-19807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway","category-transportation","tag-natso-news-weekly","tag-tolling","tag-virginia","post_subcategories-highway-transportation","post_types-natso-articles","post_sources-natso-news-weekly-nnw"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36056,"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19807\/revisions\/36056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19807"},{"taxonomy":"post_subcategories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_subcategories?post=19807"},{"taxonomy":"post_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_types?post=19807"},{"taxonomy":"post_sections","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_sections?post=19807"},{"taxonomy":"post_retailers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_retailers?post=19807"},{"taxonomy":"post_sources","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_sources?post=19807"},{"taxonomy":"post_suppliers","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natso.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_suppliers?post=19807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}